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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton and a range of staples show prices such as 11.5 for cotton and 44.5 for spirits. Turpentine quotes 44.5, corn 1.10, meal 2.15, feed oats 74, rice whole 12, flour 4.50, pearl grist in sacks 6.25, and other listed items including butts and belly prices for D. and C. Bellies. The data reflects a historical commodity market listing with multiple grain and product prices.
The region expected overcast skies with a chance of showers tonight or Tuesday. Light east wind accompanies the unsettled conditions.
Community updates report visits to Pawley's Island and Rock Hill firemen contests plans and social gatherings. Health remedies and travel describe Dr Shuler Black's auto trip from Columbia to Georgetown, families on vacation, a youth drowning tragedy, and progress on a state chamber of commerce proposal. A political rename and a candidate card for County Auditor are noted.
List of unclaimed letters at the Georgetown South Carolina post office for the period ending June 22 1912. Names include Henry Allison Abram Allison C R Allston John Cousen Jim Cutmo G W Cattino D H Gennon Ed Gibbs Phillip Hume Grace Magers Arthur Pinkney N J Tailor George Thomas Eddie Verne Jeff White Allen Wilson T W Wid Edith Eli Miss Morgan Fanny Carrie Bell Gethers Miss E Hale Rosa Johnson Lizzie Kelley Mrs Lenory Moore Mrs Candas McColl Miss Marie Owens E E Powers Octavia Richardson Bessie Lamey Annie Simpson Mrs A E Smith Sonia Weston Cartie Wilson and others.
Mrs. Mary Banning of Hepburn Ohio was tending an old hen and her brood during a thunder storm when lightning struck the coop. The hen and chicks were killed while Mrs. Banning was only slightly stunned, standing about five feet away.
Notice is given that on land after the first day of July next a penalty will attach to all unpaid taxes. W. A. Black, Clerk and Treasurer.
An analysis praising American rifle and gun records as held by Americans. It argues U S soldiers and national guardsmen train for self reliance and initiative, with high marksman standards. It notes US rifle practice spending exceeds other nations and cites strengths and gaps in equipment and supply.
A gentleman finds a one dollar overcharge after the cashier and waitress swap bets about his noticing it. He writes a note on the back of the check and leaves, claiming he will not be there when they return, and indeed he is gone.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages as a constitutional disease. It is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease and build up the patient. Proponents offer 100 dollars for any case it fails to cure.
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